Format Details:
Release Date: 25 July 2025
Label: Fingerpoppin' Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 8436563185878
Description
37 tracks across 2CDs, features brilliant stereo sound and a 16-page booklet, with some tracks appearing for the first time ever on CD.
Count Basie's career was revived in late 1957 thanks to the success of the Neal Hefti arranged LP Atomic Basie, which became one of his biggest hits. From then on, the Count Basie orchestra flourished as proven by the two 1969 complete club sets presented here, recorded within two weeks of each other live at La Cabaret Casino in Nassau and the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas.
Among the outstanding soloists are the great Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Basie himself, and, on the Las Vegas engagement, guest star trumpet soloist Harry "Sweets" Edison. Most of the Nassau tracks appear here for the first time ever on CD.
"This set features updated takes on the Basie songbook's greatest instrumental hits. The music is, of course, great, and the players respond to the excitement of the live audience." - **** AllMusic
Tracklisting
Sonny Rollins Quartet & Don Cherry
Tommy Flanagan's Super Jazz Trio
John Coltrane Quintet & Eric Dolphy
Shelly Manne & His Men
Miles Davis & Bill Evans
Count Basie
Brother Jack McDuff & George Benson Quartet
Miles Davis
Count Basie
Count Basie
Count Basie
Judy Garland
Count Basie, Slim Gaillard & Nat King Cole
Count Basie
Count Basie
